The Sunthorpe exhibit by artist Rodrigo Leburn is coming to North Lincolnshire Museum in Scunthorpe (Image: Rodrigo Lebrun)

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Bid goodbye to Scunthorpe and say hello to Sunthorpe, a popular tourist attraction with sweltering summers but one which is becoming increasingly deadly due to climate change.

Thankfully, this is only a museum exhibit so far, but it shows what could happen as global warming worsens.

The touring video exhibit, now on show at North Lincolnshire Museum, imagines a future town being ravaged by higher temperatures, pollution and rising sea levels.

Created by artist Rodrigo Lebrun, the work will be be on display at the museum, on Oswald Road in Scunthorpe, from Saturday, January 19 to Sunday, March 17.

It shows people an advertisement which will explore fake news and conspiracy theories, while challenging people to work out what is real.

Rodrigo said: "Climate change itself for me is just the symptom of other problems, and that's why I try to weave that into the narrative. I can't just speak about climate change if I don't talk about consumerism, if I don't talk about different economic cycles, if I don't talk about politics.

"Creating a mock advert was a way of addressing all these things. I would argue that there are going to be players in the process who will see it and sell it as an opportunity, irrespective of human cost."

The exhibit is curated by environmental arts organisation Invisible Dust, and is part of the museum's three-year-long focus on the environment.

Alice Sharp, curator and director of Invisible Dust said: "Rodrigo Lebrun is a very exciting artist and we are delighted with the new video work he has created, raising questions about how we will live in the future.

"His work explores the news and social media to create an imaginary town of 'Sunthorpe' with eternal sunshine.

The Sunthorpe exhibit imagines a future in which a town is ravaged by rising temperatures and sea levels (Image: Rodrigo Lebrun)

"Rodrigo asks in 'Sunthorpe' whether we can both look after nature and the environment and at the same time, improve the economy and raise our standards of living."

Councillor Elaine Marper, cabinet member for participation and culture at North Lincolnshire Council, said: "We are very excited to be working with Invisible Dust to host a new exhibition at North Lincolnshire Museum.

"They have given us the opportunity to work with international artists on a series of commissions around environmental issues."